Japanese automaker Honda will
resume production at its Ayutthaya assembly plant, north of
Bangkok, in March, a top company executive said Wednesday.
Pitak Pruittisarikorn, executive vice president of Honda
Automobile (Thailand) Co. said the firm is installing machinery
and testing systems at its assembly plant in the Rojana
Industrial Estate, hit by last years flood.
After resuming production, it then will manufacture auto parts to supply Honda plants in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Facilities in other countries, affected by supply chain disruptions due to the Thai flood crisis last year, are expected to be able to resume operation in April.
Pitak said the Office of Industrial Economics recently
announced criteria and conditions for complete car import
approvals and the company is working on importing the Honda
Jazz and Accord from Japan for distribution to customers in Thailand from the end of February onwards to offset the
domestic production loss.
Scrapping the 1,055 Honda cars irreparably damaged by the
floods began Dec 27, he said, and will finish by Feb. 25.
